Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day?

• boatsnhos931@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s true they were born with immunity. I heard one of those potato eating bastards has a pot o’ gold.

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• gardylou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I presume you are being ironic but just in case the Irish have experienced alot of racism LOL.

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  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    i’m not.

    if you want to understand why the history of racism against irish americans after the wave of immigration in response to the manmade famine doesn’t factor into racism irish americans experience today (none, zero, irish americans do not experience racism today), read my top level comment.

    the defining factors are that irish americans were integrated into white supremacist power structures and black americans weren’t, that st. patricks day isn’t treated with any reverence in the united states and is instead one of the big four drinking holidays and the negative stereotypes of irish americans from the 1800s don’t survive today in word or in deed.

    i chose not to touch on the lingering economic impact of racism against irish americans as opposed to racism against black americans because they’re in two different universes. one was largely dismantled before any of us were born and the other is still systemic and pervasive to this day.

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    • gardylou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      America is not the world my friend. I mean Irish people in Ireland have been historically repressed and reviled in and by UK and Europe. I dont know how prevelant it continues to be, but there is a deep history.

      Humans beings the world over find ways to categorize and class each other on ethnicity in all sorts of ways that is fundamentally working with similar powe relations to racism without it being reducible to skin tone.

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      • bloodfart@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The ops question is about America. I explicitly made a top level comment about America.

        When someone asked for a tldr I did not specify Irish Americans, but that should be clear from the thread, my post and the op.

        You’re replying to a comment where I explicitly specified America.

        America is not the world but we’re talking about America here.

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